BENEFITS OF YOGA

The benefits of yoga are multi-fold. The first is that it improves your health. Yoga provides us with tools and techniques to lead a stress-free and tension-free life. Yoga is also the most significant wealth of humankind. What is wealth? The purpose of wealth is to bring happiness and comfort. Yoga is wealth in the sense that it brings absolute comfort. A violence-free society, disease-free body, confusion-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, trauma-free memory, and a sorrow-free soul is the birthright of every individual. Parliaments worldwide are striving to achieve this goal of human existence – happiness! We all want happiness for our people and yoga is a way for that much-needed happiness factor. We think yoga is some sort of exercise. In the ’80s and ’90s, when I would tour the world, yoga was not easily accepted in mainstream society. Today, I am glad that there is an awakening and that people have recognized the importance of yoga. The world over, yoga has become synonymous with relaxation, happiness, and creativity. Even big companies in their advertisements put people sitting in a yoga position or in a meditation pose to depict inner peace. Whether we like it or not, we are all born yogis. You do not need a yoga teacher if you observe a baby. Any baby in the world, from the age of three months to the age of three years, does all the yoga postures. The breathing, the way they sleep, the way they smile, everything is yoga. A baby is a yoga teacher, a yogi. That is how a baby is stressed free, there is happiness – it smiles 400 times in a day. Another important benefit of yoga is that it changes the behaviour of a person because behaviour depends on the stress level in a person. It creates a friendly disposition and a very pleasant atmosphere in people. Yoga helps to improve our vibes. We convey a lot through our presence, even more than our words. Speaking in terms of quantum mechanics, we are all emitting vibes or wavelengths. When communication breaks down, we often say, “Our wavelengths don’t match” because of our ability to communicate.